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Wide horizons lead the soul to broad ideas; circumscribed horizons engender narrow ideas; this sometimes condemns great hearts to become small minded.

Broad ideas hated by narrow ideas,—this is the very struggle of progress.

Victor Hugo

Victor Hugo

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